I have a sheet that will record delivery information. However one of the record we have right now have a barcode that start with equal (=) symbol(=00000-00). So whenever we fired our barcode reader at it. it return as 5 digits number (10000) with minus calculation instead of our office-use 7 digits number format. (10077-77)
From what i know, In excel you can turn auto-calculation off as simple as turning format into text for use manual setting for calculation. However that doesn't seems to be the case here for Google Sheet. Is there any workaround for this? I tried =right(B2, len(B2)-1) but all it does is removing first number out and ignore equal symbol entirely.
I believe the best workaround is to treat it like a string:
You also have the option of displaying formulas:
Yet if you use a value of =0000-00 or something with starting zeros, it will not display the zeros:
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I made a binary calculator with bitwise functions (bitand, bitor, bitxor, ect.) in google sheets (yes I am aware that there are built in functions to do this, this seemed more fun). It is an 8 bit calculator, and I currently have addition and subtraction implemented. Multiplication is planned, but seems way too hard at the moment
One of the things I came across is once a calculation is done, the user has to manually 0 out the addends/minuend and subtrahend one digit at a time. I would like to optimize this process.
I can easily create a script that will input 0 into all the cells and hook that up to a button. I have a feeling that's the route I'm going to have to go. But I want to challenge myself in making cool stuff, so I want the coolest solution.
My question is: is there a way I can do this without a script attached? I've been experimenting with ARRAYFORMULA and VLOOKUP, but I don't have a clear answer yet.
Expected behavior:
User inputs their calculation. User records the answer. User selects both 8 bit binary numbers (currently residing in A1:H2) and presses backspace. Google Sheet automatically translates those blank cells to 0's.
take a look into custom internal formatting. any text can be converted to "0"
then see shifted arrays:
={"", "x"}
formula from G9 will print "0" into H9. also, you can anytime enter value in H9 to "overwrite" the zero and after you don't need the entered value you just clear it with backspace or delete key and it will be filled with "0" again.
also, note that after you enter value in H9, G9 will error out and such error cant be suppressed so see hidden cells:
not sure if it's cool enough but it works (with compromises)
I've changed my locale in Google Sheets (Settings > Locale) to use the Italian format, with the comma as decimal separator, and dot as thousands separator (thus 1.173,00 means one-thousand-one-hundred-seventy-three).
I'm trying to figure out how to paste correctly in a cell a number which comes from the origin as "1.173" and Google Sheets is interpreting that as 3.53.00
Why?
Everything works fine if I include the decimals (pasting "1.173,00") but the source does not includes them, therefore I'm stuck with this problem.
Thank you
Google Sheets is automatically interpreting 1.173 as a duration rather than a number. It reads it as 1 hour and 173 minutes, and automatically corrects it to 3 hours and 53 minutes instead.
Based on my own experimentation, it doesn't seem like there's a fix for this: regardless of what number format is applied to a cell or range before inputting 1.173, Sheets still treats it as a duration. Formatting as plain text allows the cell to display 1.173, but trying to convert that text to a number for use in any sort of calculation (through the use of =VALUE, for example) seems to have issues.
I have a column with lots of rows containing text. I want to highlight cells with over an x-amount of characters, but how? The code I'm using in combination with 'Conditional Formatting' is not working all the time. Sometimes it highlights text over the x amount and sometimes it doesn't, so there is something I'm doing wrong here. The x-amount in the example below is: 300.
you may also need to lock it like:
=LEN(E$1:E$170)>300
Silly me... I found the answer myself. I need to put in the same range in the formula as well. Formula with the range E1:E170 needs to be: =LEN(E1:E170)>300
Currently, pasting 112,359,1003 into Google Sheets automatically converts the value to 1123591003.
This prevents me from applying the Split text to columns option as there are no commas left to split by.
Note that my number format is set to the following (rather than being Automatic):
Selecting the Plain text option prevents the commas from being truncated but also prevents me from being able to use the inserted data in formulas.
The workaround for this is undesirable when inserting large amounts of data: select cells that you expect to occupy, set to Plain Text, paste data, set to back to desired number format.
How do I disable the automatic interpretation by Google Spreadsheet of the commas in my pasted numeric values?
You can not paste it in any number format, because of the nature of numerical format types. It will parse it into an actual number and physically store it in this format. Using plaintext type, like you are, is the way to go for this.
However, there are some options to perform these tasks in a slightly different way;
- you might be able to use CSV-import functionality, which prevents having to change types for a sheet.
- you can use int() function to parse the plaintext value into an int. (and combine this with lookup functions).
TEXT formatting:
Use ' to prepend the number. It'll be stored as text regardless of actual formatting.
Select the column and set formatting as `plain text.
In both the above cases, You can multiply the resulting text by 1 *1 to use in any formula as a number.
NUMBER formatting:
Keep Number formatting with ,/Automatic.
Here, though split text to columns might not work, You can use TEXT() or TO_TEXT()
=ARRAYFORMULA(SPLIT(TO_TEXT(A1:A5),","))
Long time Lurker reporting in! My issue is I'm not sure how to increment an Item no. It follows this format : LK0001 the row below it will be LK0002, below that LK0003 and so on I'm not sure how to automate this process, as you can tell I'm fairly new to google spreadsheets Sorry if it's already answered , I just can't seem to find it! Thanks!
Weej
First of all, I would suggest using the following ID build-up:
LK1000
This way characters (LK) can be separated from integers (1000). Otherwise you would face the problem, that if you increase LK0009 by 1 it becomes LK00010 and not LK0010
ID's need to be "hard coded", meaning =CONCAT or =A1+1 or =MAX(A:A)+1 are not allowed.
Either go by typing LK+max. number and use the ID as a text or go for the integers and use CONCAT when needed.
If you chose to go with the integers, you can easily increment them by doing this:
and then dragging it downwards, yielding:
I've prepared an example for you: How do I increment a string value in Google Spreadsheet?